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Saturday, 31 January 2015

The white quilt

Time for photos of the white quilt that I made in January. It has been a long process, communicating with my client about what she wanted, deciding on fabrics, and ordering them, and waiting for some on backorder. As this lady was not a quilter, or sewer, I was worried about us both being “on the same page” with ideas. It was a bit trickier when it came to the quilting and I knew that she wanted the fabrics to show, and this was more difficult because all the fabrics were different whites. It is a bit like quilting a wholecloth and the quilting being the main feature, and I wanted the quilting to be background. Bit tricky wasn’t it? I knew that the first pattern I started quilting was not right and really took over. So after 6 hours of unpicking we went back to the “drawing board” and I sent her to a website to look at patterns, and where they had photos of quilts quilted with these patterns. As a result of her choices, I quilted Square Dance in the centre of the quilt, and used a chevron pattern in the border.

The quilt was delivered today, and I received a text showing a photo of the quilt on her bed, and saying that she loved it, so now I can relax. The photos below, which I took on my bed, don’t show the fabrics so well, but they do show up better in real life.

I better get back to the machine, as I am almost finished a custom quilt today, with lots of applique. A Noah’s Ark quilt for some lucky child.

I think the eyes are starting to feel better, and as tomorrow is a day of rest, I might just do that and quilting can happen again on Monday.

I will be back tomorrow, with another post of more news that has happened in the last week.

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About Me

I am the proud mother of 4 children, grandmother to 7 beautiful children.In 2002 I commenced a longarm machine quilting business, Cornerstone Creations Machine Quilting. In 2010 I purchased and renovated a 4 br house for Quilting/Craft Retreats, called The Sanctuary.After 5 fantastic years of retreats I sold this house and now host retreats at my house, and am still machine quilting for others. This is a process of trying to "rebalance" my life. I love to make quilts,teach others to sew, read books, and garden. I am a Christian following God's leading in my life.